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Gough back to join England’s crusade for youth

By Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Chief Cricket Correspondent

May 30 2003, 1:00am, The Times

THE inclusion of Darren Gough in the England squad of 15 named yesterday for next month’s one-day internationals owes almost everything to sentiment. It is great news for Gough personally that his battle to return to fitness has apparently been won after a miserable 2002, but at 32, his invitation to become a sort of father figure to the young bowlers in the squad makes more sense than it does to bring him back as leader of the attack.

The squad for the NatWest Challenge and NatWest Series, the one-day internationals taking place between June 17 and July 14, contains six players who have not played a one-day international: Kabir Ali, Rikki Clarke, Robert Key, Richard Johnson, Anthony McGrath and Jamie Troughton. Gough, who has…